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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Best free seo tools

Google, as I've written before, is the best free SEO tool (analytics, webmaster tools, adwords, search etc). The second best is yahoo. And the plugins to Firefox are amazing. In terms of third party websites:

Free Wordtracker - This is much like the old Yahoo/overture tool that we all liked - - I wonder where they get their data?Answer is from dogpile and metacrawler which accounts for .63% of the searches. But, their searches are not by typical or mainstream users. A big problem. I mean like what sort of person in 2008 uses dogpile? If you met someone who used dogpile to search with, what sort of person do you think it would be? Would it be someone like Joe Sixpack? Or someone really weird and fringy...Maybe from Hawaii or Alaska...

4 comments:

Hey thanks for this great post. I've learnt alot from it. I'm thinking of getting search engine optimization service for my own website. Do you advise that I employ a specialized seo company or do it myself?

Savant - your post looks like spam but still, I'll answer. I decided to bring seo inhouse since it was a vital part of our strategy and since we are fast learners, I thought we could have a more coherent long-term implementation of seo principles by making it a core competence, not something on the side (and outsourced)